In wishing all our readers, supporters and friends everywhere A Very happy New Year for 2016 and miles beyond, I also wish to acknowledge the messages I got last night and well into this morning. I got several very well meaning but woefully lopsided messages and I appreciate the effort that went into these in…
Christmas Greetings to all our supporters: advertisers, advisors, ‘likers’ readers and well-wishers all over the world and especially Castleisland and Maine Valley people wherever you are tonight. We wish you A Happy Christmas and A Healthy and Peaceful New Year. Thank you for all your support during the year just slipping away from us and…
Well-known broadcaster, Christy Kenneally will deliver a Lenten Talk on Bereavement on this Wednesday night, February 25th at 7.30pm in the River Island Hotel. There is no admission fee and all are welcome to attend. A native of Co. Cork, now living in Wicklow, Mr. Kenneally is a writer and speaker on this topic. Christy…
Chatting is the accidental theme of this week’s Postcard from the Past. Accidental only because I found them in the vault while rooting for something else altogether. Chatting is a deeply rooted tradition and it was free-to-air pastime in its heyday. Now it’s under pressure from the onslaught of an amazing wave of modern technology…
Those in power write the history. Those who suffer write the songs and, given our history, we have an awful lot of songs. That’s an oft quoted line when discussions on the history of the Irish ballad or balladeer arise. There are examples of its historical accuracy in every town and village in the country. Take our…
Here’s wishing the friends and supporters of The Maine Valley Post a year of Good Fortune, Good Health, Goodwill and Happiness for 2015. As an appropriate New Year’s wish to accompany the chosen photograph my first reaction was: ‘May the tides of life lap gently around your rocks’ but, on reflection, I thought to myself: “No! you can’t go…
The Maine Valley Post got a nice mention in yesterday’s Irish Examiner in relation to the story of the lost / found World War 1 Medal belonging to Tralee native, Denis Tangney. The medal was found by Dermot McCarthy in a cottage in Dysart in 2000 and returned to a grandson, of the late Denis…
I’ve been told that our Friday Favourite inclusion of old photographs are no fun if all the names are supplied as they go live here on the site. I can understand that. For those FFers of you who like that class of torture, you’ll love this week’s inclusion. It’s a couple of photographs of children…
If you want to be in with a chance of winning one of these amazing Ipad Air devices you can enter the competition by clicking on the Tralee Credit Union banner advert on the top of The Maine Valley Post news pages. A brief description of the prize below would lead you to believe that…
On Monday, June 16th of last week a wreath was laid at the monument on the site of an accidental explosion at Glountane where Tom Fleming lost his life and a number of others were injured on June 16th 1921. The well-kept monument had been freshly painted and well presented by local man, Patrick O’Leary…
